Anna Opryszko

Gertrude Stein-ass tweet right here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

—coffee,
Smooth,
wooden

a digital drawing of a crying tiger jumping through a flaming hoop. The border is chains, with some links broken. An eye in each corner watches the tiger. Text above says “I don’t want to do this anymore” and the same text below is heavily distorted.

I Don’t Want To Do This Anymore
#art

It's not an exaggeration to say that Fobazi Ettarh's work changed my whole relationship with my job. Always worth a re-read!

Bummed our BC times won’t overlap, but if you’re ever visiting would love to reconnect!

One of the most disappointing shifts in my 5+ years at UMN

Honestly, take me back to Belgium 😫

Currently doing a Midwest -> BC move for a PhD, and I think it’ll end up at least $10k USD (with spouse + dogs). And we’re not even moving to Vancouver proper! Pretty wild but I’m also so grateful to have the chance for an internat’l move right now. The debt will be worth it.

Would watch a vaguely spooky "biopic" of Francois III! Just imagine the twist at the end...

Speaking as someone who is venturing into bibliography on the academic side & has been inspired by your work, thank you for the role you play in this field!

Love this!

I wish there was a virtual option!

Fantastic, I know they'd be thrilled to talk about it

The Wangensteen Library at UMN got an NEH grant to think about exactly this! Lost the grant ofc, but they're trying to keep the project moving anyway. Feel free to message me if you want my colleagues' contact info who are on this project team!

I haven’t seen all of these but I gotta agree with #1!

Screenshot of the top of my article with the title, my name and then two epigraphs. It reads as follows: Queer Transmissions: English Manuscript, Italian Print and a Discomforting History of the Book Sonja Drimmer Confronted with this range of material and contextual complexity, the first scholars of fifteenth- century printmaking were definitely troubled by what they found.1 So let’s think about how it feels to be comfortable.

The printing press is not responsible for launching Europe into modernity, nor did it transform society overnight. Folks like Sam Altman & other tech boosters are obsessed w this misperception bc it provides a precedent for AI. A recent article I wrote touches on this. Abstract & links in replies.

If you read four history books on the same topic, you will inevitably notice how the historians pick what makes it into their account and how they’re responding to other historians. Then you pick a favorite and begin to feel deep antipathy to the other chosen paths. Welcome. You are now an academic.

A person presenting with a slide that reads Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Georgie Anderson wrapping up her presentation on Blackness in medieval romance manuscripts with a BANGER slide @imc-leeds.bsky.social

An instant TBR!

i hate fireworks, and nationalism

Minnesota Center for Book Arts! Find the pre-proof typo 😂

A page from a 1702 German publication with the title "Reimb Dich, Oder Ich Liß Dich, Das ist: Allerley Materien, Discurs, Concept, und Predigen, welche bißhero in underschiedlichen Tractätlein gedruckt worden" (vd18 10307974). The author explains on this page, and on pages before and after the Holy Trinity. Part of the detailed explanation if a human heart, made of a V (in German printing a "U") and a three as a cap. In the text, the "V" stands for the Latin "unum" (meaning: one, as in: together as one) and the number 3 is of course the Holy Trinity. This heart symbol, explained in the text, looks like a contemporary emoticon: <3

An #earlymodern #emoticon has entered the chat: <3

❤️

Besler, Hortus eystettensis, 1613

Kircher, Physiologia Kircheriana experimentalis, 1680

Academie des sciences, Memoirs for a natural history of animals, 1701

Cheselden, Osteographia, 1733

Spent the morning with some fun printing details!

"If publication is indeed choral, it sings across time and from the many voices, communities, and cultural contexts that contribute a verse to its reiteration."

I'm only a few pages in and already this is so good!!

!!!! "The advancing scholarship of Indigenous book history, then, might reposition the paratext as a dynamic literary space that extends well beyond the life and agency of the author..."

What a wonderful post to happen across -- I'm starting my PhD this fall and having my first kid this December, and I'll be sure to remember the phrase "wearing my motherhood publicly."

So elaborate!

The neighborhood ice cream truck is playing the Hallelujah chorus on loop 🤨

Clearly they were over-correcting from a different attempt! This is one example of why access to multiple copies of a book can be so useful for looking at printing practices.